If you adopt a puppy without pedigree you adopt a puppy without a story, without a proper selection by a breeder, which may mean that it can be carrier, without our knowing it, of important genetic defects getting to very serous and debilitating diseases.

A thoroughbred cat without pedigree is officially the same as a half-breed cat: even though it looks like the cat breed we wish it were, one cannot assure that it also has the peculiar temperament and behaviour that fascinated us with said cat breed.

Pedigree is not only a document released by the competent Association, but an evidence of the cat breeder's ability in trying to outbreed immune from genetic diseases...